India is ready to help Pakistan is unable to handle fight against terrorism: Rajnath Singh

December 3, 2018

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that Pakistan can seek India’s help if it is unable to handle the fight against terrorism alone. Singh was speaking at a press conference in Jaipur, said that Jammu and Kashmir was never an issue as it has always been an integral part of the country. “The issue is of terrorism, and Pakistan can discuss it,” he added.

“I want to ask the Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan that if in Afghanistan, a fight can be carried out against terror and Taliban with the help of the US, then, Pakistan can seek help against terrorism from India if it feels that it cannot handle it alone,” he said.

The Home Minister added that there have not been any major terrorist-related incident in the country in more than four years of the PM Modi-led NDA government. “I do not want to claim that terrorism has stopped, but no major terrorist incident has happened in the country in the last four-and-a-half years,” Rajnath said.

Terrorism is confined only to Kashmir where also the situation is improving, Singh said adding Panchayat elections in J&K is being conducted successfully. “The government has brought Jammu and Kashmir into a political process. As far as terrorism is concerned, there is no second thought that it is Pakistan sponsored,” the Home Minister said.